The Nemeth Art Center is a contemporary art space located in Park Rapids, Minnesota.

Yunior Rebollar

September 8 -

September 29, 2024

The Nemeth Art Center is thrilled to present our second annual exhibition of handmade clothing collection by Osage, Minnesota-based artist Yunior Rebollar. The museum has six unique fits on display from September 8 - September 29, 2024, and welcomes visitors to an end-of-season reception on Sunday, September 29, noon - 4pm.

The artist reception will be celebrated in conjunction with the Art Leap (www.heartlandarts.org) community and participants.

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Artist Statement

Through this collection of textile works I have been exploring my artistic persona, aligning reality with abstraction, and using clothing to understand the self. The deep winters of the North have been my greatest inspiration for this collection - with textiles and forms oscillating between workwear, military cuts, with retro styles. My drawing, painting and sewing practice all come out of the same soul at the same time. Making this work has been a practice of patience - waiting for one work to lead the the next manifestation.

Every design in this collection was created as a celebration of growth, accepting the multiplicity of one’s personality, while owning every change of mood as they merge to become the whole. This freedom to experiment is very much driven by my locale, here in the US, with distance between the uniformity of expectation of Cuba. Thriving between these opposing energies, the heat of my Cuban home and the deep cold of Minnesota. This duality is the balancing factor for my layered, overcomplicated personality and artistic ego.

Madeleine Bialke “The Long View”

Wayne Gudmundson “What Stillness Has to Offer”

Free and open to the public.

2023 Season Highlights

In July, the Nemeth Art Center's presented its first-ever (official) artist's summer residency. Brad Kahlhamer held residence for the month of June in a studio/cabin north of Park Rapids, where he produced a new collection of works inspired by the setting specifically for the NAC. In this video interview and series of montages, Kahlhamer walks us through his experience in the cabin in the woods. Special thanks to filmmaker and friend, Falcon Gott.